The House of Silk:
The New Sherlock Holmes Novel

Anthony Horowitz

This attempt at a new Sherlock Holmes novel captures the feel of Conan
Doyle's stories quite nicely. It is optimised for a modern audience,
most obviously in its pacing and in elements of its plot — for
example in a sudden concern for the welfare of the Baker St Irregulars,
Holmes' troop of street children — but that is done fairly subtly.
Horowitz, scriptwriter for the television series Foyle's War among
other achievements, does a good job with the historical setting and,
most importantly, with the characters of Holmes and Watson (and also
with Lestrade and other minor figures).